Frederic Mark Binkelman

Abt 1877 - 1885  (8 years)

• Name	Frederic Mark Binkelman  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1877	Marion, Waupaca County, Wisconsin   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	11 May 1885	Marion, Waupaca County, Wisconsin   [1, 2]
  Burial	Dupont Cemetery, Marion, Waupaca County, Wisconsin   [1]
  Notes	Name: Mark Binkelman Gender: Male Burial Date: 09 Jan 1886 Burial Place: Marion, Wisconsin Death Date: 11 May 1885 Death Place: Marion, Waupaca, Wisconsin Age: 8 Birth Date: 1871 Birthplace: Marion Occupation: Race: White Marital Status: Spouse's Name: Father's Name: William R. Binkelman Father's Birthplace: Mother's Name: Mary Ramsdell Mother's Birthplace: Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B06570-2 System Origin: Wisconsin-EASy Source Film Number: 1311663 Reference Number: item 2 p 150 Collection: Wisconsin Deaths and Burials, 1835-1968
  Person ID	I33164	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	William Richard Clancey Binkelman,   b. 2 Mar 1848, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Mary Ann Ramsdell,   b. Sep 1849, Manitowoc, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	28 Mar 1871	Manitowoc County, Wisconsin   [3, 4, 5]
  	There is perhaps no more prominent businessman in the northern part of Waupaca County than Mr. Binkelman. He has been a farmer, schoolteacher, and merchant, and, on his upward to a comfortable competence, he has also engaged in various other vocations. His present mercantile establishment is the largest in the village of Marion. Mr. Binkelman was born in Joliet, ILL, in 1849, son of Leonard and Jane (McCormick) Binkelman, the father a native of Germany, the mother of Irish extraction. Leonard Binkleman was a ship builder by trade, and for many years was a resident of Joliet, removing thence in 1852 to Manitowoc, Wis., where he also followed his trade. Mrs. Binkelman died in 1894, and he now resides with his son, W.R. at Marion. Their children were: W.R., Mary Jane, wife of William Clark, of Manitowoc; Fred, and Emma E., wife of John Bodwin, of East Gibson, Manitowoc County. W.R. Binkelman was reared in Manitowoc, and after leaving the schools there, clerked in a grocery store for some time, after which for about ten years he was engaged in the confectionery business of Manitowoc. In 1872 Mr. Binkelman moved to Shawano County, and there engaged in farming, teaching school and speculating in land for several years, teaching in Grant and Belle Plaine Townships, and also in Dupont Township, Waupaca County. In 1876, he removed to the later township, locating on a tract of land one and a half miles distant from Marion. Three years later he opened a hardware store at Marion, where he has since been continuously in business. There was only one store in the village when he located there, that of McDonald and Ramsdell, a firm that has since gone out of business. The village contained but three houses, Mr. Binkelman erecting the fifth building, but there is now a population of 800, and it is still growing rapidly. He erected his present building, a good two-story frame, in 1881, and carries of full line of hardware and farm machinery, the most valuable stock of goods in Dupont Township. He is a notary public, and for thirteen years, up to January 1, 1895, he was in the insurance business. In earlier life Mr. Binkelman filed cross-cut saws, and adopted various other honest and honorable means of obtaining a start in life, and he began business in Marion with only $350, his present extensive trader testifying to his abundant, perhaps unequalled, success at this point. Mr. Binkelman was married, in 1871, to Miss [Mary] Ann Ramsdell , who was born in Manitowoc Rapids, daughter of Erastus Ramsdell, an early pioneer of Manitowoc country, who subsequently moved to Dupont Township, where he died in 1890. To Mr. and Mrs. Binkelman came 6 children, five of whom are now living: Olla A., Irvine, Luella, Lindon J., and Murrell. Mark died at the age of eight years. In politics Mr. Binkelman is a Republican, and socially he is a charter member of Marion Lodge No. 256, I.O.O.F., in which he has passed all the Chairs, and is now serving as Chaplain. He attends the M.E. Church, and his eldest daughter, Olla A., is Superintendent of Sunday School at the flourishing Church. In January, 1895, Mr. Binkelman was elected Chairman of Dupont Township; he was Clerk of the Courts of Waupaca County from 1884 to 1888; was Postmaster at Marion under President Harrison from 1888 to 1892, resigning in the later year; he was Town Clerk of Dupont for five years; In January, 1895, was appointed chairman of the town board, and, in the spring of that year was elected chairman, receiving 241 votes out of a total of 307, a fact which testifies better than words his popularity. He is well known throughout Waupaca County, and commands the esteem and good fellowship of all who know him. From "Commemorative Biological Record of the Upper Wisconsin Counties of Waupaca, Portage, Wood, Marathon, Lincoln, Oneida, Vilas, Langlade and Shawano" by Chicago: J.H. Beers & Co., 1895. (Courtesy of Lorraine Smith Benkelman)
  Family ID	F9378	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Birth - Abt 1877 - Marion, Waupaca County, Wisconsin Death - 11 May 1885 - Marion, Waupaca County, Wisconsin Burial - - Dupont Cemetery, Marion, Waupaca County, Wisconsin  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S801] FamilySearch.org, Wisconsin Deaths and Burials, 1835-1968. [S813] Ramsdell, D. A. "Reminscences of Old Times" MARION ADVERTISER, Marion, WI, 18 May 1917, (http://www.wigenweb.org/waupaca/News/waupnews1917.htm), http://www.wigenweb.org/waupaca/News/waupnews1917.htm (Reliability: 3). [S690] Zimmerman, Jane-Family Researcher (zimnero@tm.net). [S813] Ramsdell, D. A. "Reminscences of Old Times" MARION ADVERTISER, Marion, WI, 18 May 1917, (http://www.wigenweb.org/waupaca/News/waupnews1917.htm). [S1610] Jacobs, BonnieMargaret McDonald "The Family Benkelman" Unpublished Manuscript, 276 pages, October 1981 Version, (Copy owned by Barney Benkelman, Helena, Montana; which he xeroxed and sent to Melinda McLemore Strong in San Antonio, Texas), p. 103, she cites Manitowoc County Marriage Records, Vol. 4, pg. 44 (Reliability: 3).